Technology; Terrors and Threats

kopya ito from a discussion I have writen sa isang page sa fb...

In the advent of technology, everything became instant. Rapid development signaled that we must be in rapid motion too. Human beings alike cannot be divorced from technical and mechanical activities so and so. The human brain became more and more usable. Utilizing the most of human potentialities which was never before seen in history. Old scholastic tradition needs 70 percent of study time just to read books and compile information. Much of the time is wasted for chat and household chores. But when technology came to place, people augmented new flavor for human activity. First one was the auditory co-activation. Auditory Co-Activation simply put, is the ability and possibility of doing human activities along with phonoentertainment altogether without compromising the the said activity. You can listen to a phonograph and do the household chores at the same time. Later on, a transistor radio was introduced.

Another innovation, the TV, came into our consciousness. Human tried watching while doing the same work just like the way we do with radio. It worked although not most of the time. You cannot bring a TV set into your bathroom unless portable. You cannot drive and concentrate on TV at the same time. Mostly, it is radio which accompanies us in our daily activities. But since you can open the television and hear the sound coming from it, many remained fixated to that. Until Cellphone entered the scene. You can bring cellphones wherever you are. While waiting for a bus to ride, you can text anybody. While having a conversation in a launch, you can text when what they are presenting is not so special. Even in classrooms where you think it is totally forbidden, some can take time to sneak at their bags and see if there is a new message in their inbox. Truly, another world consumed us. We are not only living in a real world but also in a reel world, a virtual world to be exact. So, while talking to your grandma at home, you can also converse with your boss who's on the other line.

It is something that is normal nowadays. That simply proves that the human mind is capable of doing several things all at the same time. Psychiatric researches show that human learning is not only bound in one activity as that of a lecture type inside the classroom. The attention of students vary from time to time, to be exact, from 20 minutes to another 20 minutes. That means, before they get bored in a discussion, the professor needs to shift to another activity. That is why it is not advisable anymore to do a half day lessons in Math. Are you still doing that? Every 20 minutes a new teacher will enter the classroom door so that the attention will be scanned. You have Math, then after 20 minutes it is English, then after 20 minutes it's PE. Something happened to the attention and concentration training of individuals. We want to do it, but as soon as we get tired of it {which is easily happening} you will change your activity.

That maybe the reason why, in so far as we live in a very knowledge friendly world with internet and on line encyclopedia; where everything is accessible, this generation did not produced any philosopher. A well informed person is a million miles different from a wise person. We may be knowledgeable but not wise. Or maybe we have produced one {or two} but we never notice them and probably never will because this multi tasking environment made us busy to be busy all the time.

For you what is the advantage and disadvantage of having a multi-tasking personality?